'Mystery Wind' Wipes Out Patch of WA Forest

A mysterious incident, believed to be meteorological in nature, knocked down over 100 trees in a Washington state national park and has left weather experts baffled.

Putting a unique twist on the old adage of a tree falling in the forest, the head-scratching event occurred in the early morning hours of January 27th at the Olympic National Park.

Whatever the force was, it wound up knocking down dozens of fairly large trees in the forest which spawned a rumbling sound that drew concerned from people living nearby.

Although initially presumed to have been a microburst based on the appearance of the downed trees, a local weather watcher named Cliff Mass dug deeper into the story and realized that it was really more of a riddle than that.